Four unusual seafarers are arriving in Washington’s Puget Sound today after a long journey from China.

At 434 feet tall with their booms up, the container cranes are the largest on the West Coast. The Northwest Seaport Alliance ordered eight of the industrial giants from Chinese manufacturer Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co. The remaining four will be delivered in 2019.

The cranes will be installed at Husky Terminal in the Port of Tacoma as part of a $250 million terminal improvement project. They “will have an outreach of 24 containers and a lift height of 165 feet above the pier deck,” according to the Northwest Seaport Alliance.

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